Is that fussy designer in your life bringing you down with his pie-in-the sky dreams for what the forms in your web app should look like? Uniform masks standard form controls with custom themed controls so they can finally make a drop down box with a paisley background.

At some point in every Rails developers life, they'll have to build contact importing into a paradigm-shifting social-networking application for niche industry X. When it happens to you, reach for contacts to ease the pain and give you a universal interface for accessing the myriad of backends, from Yahoo to GMail to Plaxo and more.

The Caliper and Gemcutter integration, Crisis Camp Haiti, and MacRuby 0.5 are all discussed in this episode of Ruby5. Also, Bundler (Rails 3 beta!), the end of IE6 for Google, JQTouch, and HTML5 examples also made the cut. Also, you'll meet two new hosts, David Bock and Kim MacCormack.